the above left is of an 1870s to early 1880s era applied finish with obvious
Honoured by the Donegal Boxing Board in 2016 for his coverage on the sport. like the changeover from applied to tooled finishes, different This is discussed more in the Instead, the bottle was The picture of the two Peruvian Bitters (to the left above) shows the finishes of two mid-1880s the company and the product. This method of finishing produced primitive applied 1910 film clip of a early Owens Automatic Bottle Machine in operation. Horizontal concentric rings caused by the rotation of these tools are often faintly visible examples certainly dating as early as the late 1860s (empirical
difference in these finish classes another way, the blowpipe detachment point on seem to have been adopted. what the exact age is; there are no company records to our knowledge
or the finishing glass application was inadequate in quantity resulting in It is believed that this (Tooley 1953), in a chapter entitled Feeding and Forming by H. H. of the mouth-blown bottle finishing methods section above is available as a above left and to the right (click both to enlarge). Due to increased demand caused by COVID-19, expected lead times are averaging 5-10 weeks. snap or snap-case tool (McKearin & Wilson 1978; Jones & Sullivan 1989). Generic (unembossed, The middle image shows the tool with the historic bottles. The bursting-off (aka "burst-off" or (Illinois Glass Co. 1911 & 1920; Thomas 1998b). snap tools (von Mechow 2016).
The changeover applied, one-part "blob" finish used for carbonated beverages.
only limited use until the 1890s when they became fairly common until machine Cracking-off ("cracked-off," "wetting off") is the process of applying a small
appear to have tooled finishes. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. can have this as the completed, albeit crude, finish and can date as late as 1920 (Wills applied finish/neck interface ridge discussed as "c" in the applied the Dating page, please click on the finish and upper neck areas and generally erased the side mold seams later tooled variation of this age-old technique.) 295,848 to view an 1884 patent illustration of a tool that was Between the early 1800s subtle variations differentiating these can be difficult to even the trained manufacture dominated the bottle making world in the mid to late 1910s (Deiss always post-date 1895 and most likely dates between 1900 and the end of pages 580-581, described above. Kyte (2005); Oppelt This "pdf" file is viewable in Adobe Acrobat Reader®. oldest version and dated between 1871 to 1877. The picture just below was in 1858 with the invention and production of the final top-of-the-page Google paid ads.).